This paper analyzes how international side-payments can be used to facilitate international trade negotiations. The authors present a model where many countries trade many goods and they calculate, by use of the Shapley value, international income transfers that will induce nations to eliminate...

All countries would agree to immediate global free trade if countries were compensated for any terms-of-trade losses with transfers from countries whose terms-of-trade improve, and if customs unions were required to have no effects on non-member countries. Global free trade with transfers is in...